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Sep 30, 2009 4 min

Fernando Pessoa #01 - Reality

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Álvaro de Campos is one of the heteronyms used by the Portuguese poet, Fernando Pessoa. The others he used were Ricardo Reis, Alberto Cairo & in his prose, Bernardo Soares. The use of these must be differentiated from simply using pen-names, since these were truly characters, each with their own personalities, appearances and attitudes, which Pessoa masterfully designed & described in numerous letters & journals. In future posts, we'll endeavor to define each of the heteronyms in order to contrast their poetics [...]

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